Linda Reilly reports: A chance arrest for the alleged use of a bogus credit card led police to a major nationwide identity theft and counterfeiting ring, officials said. […] “We called the Secret Service due to the number of credit cards,” Chitwood said. “Apparently the Greater Philadelphia area has been hit hard with stolen credit…
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Reduced jail terms over credit card fraud
Two Latvian men who were jailed for 3 years each over credit card fraud had their sentence reduced to 13 months after a Court of Appeal ruled that their young age and early guilty plea were not sufficiently taken into account. The 2 20-year-olds, Edgar Kervis and Eriks Zakis, were part of a group of…
University of Tennessee Medical Center alerts patients about possible security incident
Close to 8,000 patients at UT Medical Center will recieve letters notifying them of a privacy incident concerning their patient information. An e-mail sent to the staff of the hospital on Friday explains that an administrative report was thrown in the trash instead of shredded like the hospital policy. While there was no information on…
Ca: Confidential medical records scattered in parking lot after car break-in
Rosie Gillingham reports: A couple of city parking enforcement officers on routine patrol in downtown St. John’s Friday morning found something more interesting than illegally parked cars. Randy Bragg and Kerwin Thomas discovered a huge mess — hundreds of papers scattered on a parking lot between Duckworth Street and Henry Street. But it was more…
Ca: Privacy boss: Don't sweat e-health outsourcing
Chip Martin reports: Ontario’s privacy watchdog says its rules protecting patient records are so tight, patients needn’t worry about them being vulnerable if London hospitals go ahead with a deal with a U.S. software giant.”You can outsource services, but you cannot outsource accountability (for privacy),” Ann Cavoukian told The Free Press. Saying Ontario has “perhaps…
Ca: Laval transit card disposal breaches privacy
The Laval Transit Corporation has launched an investigation after more than one hundred expired student transit cards were found lying on the ground near the Longueuil metro station on Montreal’s South Shore. Unlike the regular-fare “Opus” smart cards, the student cards contain private information including a person’s name, photo and school. […] The Agence Métropolitaine…